This interdisciplinary book is the first to survey traditional and cutting-edge methods for the study of language attitudes. It helps readers choose a suitable research method, and guides them through planning and design, data collection and analysis. It is essential reading for researchers and students conducting research into language attitudes.

For every kind of writer you need to be.

In Conversation with Exercises starts with the idea that good writing isn’t a single, static thing. This rhetorically-driven, genre-based handbook prepares college writers to write in different ways for different courses, professional contexts, and civic and everyday scenarios. It helps them to be every kind of writer – one who slips in and out of a range of roles, writing situations, and conversations. It gives novice writers the versatility and c...